Uranus moving through your 12th House shows that you have been (and will continue) making dramatic changes in your spiritual regime and practice. It seems to me that these changes have been coming from inner revelation. And you can expect more of this in the year to come. Revelation will hit you with the suddenness of a lightning bolt. You might practise, practise, practise and nothing seems to be happening. Then one day, when you least expect it, boom! You have inner revelation and everything in your life changes.
This is a year for friendship and group activities, but it seems to involve spirituality as well. You are attracting spiritual kinds of friends. You are involved with spiritual groups and organizations.
Your spiritual mission for the year ahead (as it has been for the past two years) is staying healthy, learning more about your health, and incorporating healthy habits into your everyday life. It is also about developing your own personal healing abilities—we all have them. Being of practical service to others will not only help you in your worldly career, but also spiritually as well. Leadership is a form of service to others and you are seeing this more clearly in the year ahead.
After October 29, your spiritual mission will change. It will be about being there for your friends and spouse, supporting them and helping them.
January
Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 21, 22, 30, 31
Most Stressful Days Overall: 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24
Best Days for Love: 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29
Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26, 28, 29
Best Days for Career: 6, 14, 15, 23, 24
You begin your year with 80 to 90 per cent of the planets above the horizon. Your 10th House of Career is very powerful: 50 per cent and sometimes 60 per cent of the planets are either there or moving through there this month. You are right in the middle of a yearly career peak. This is the main interest and focus in the coming month. Your 4th House of Home and Family, by contrast, is empty. So you can safely de-emphasize family concerns and focus on your career. No question that this is the best way to serve your family. You are working hard, no question about it, fending off competitors and doing whatever you need to do to reach your goals. What I like here is that you are personally recognized, not just for your career achievements but for who you are. You are honoured and appreciated by the powers that be. You are on top, probably above everyone in your family and above your spouse or current love. You are calling the shots. Last year was a beautiful career year, and the trend continues this month. Pay rises and promotions are still likely. The only fly in the ointment (here on Earth things are seldom perfect) is the Retrograde movement of your career planet, Saturn. This suggests that you need to do more homework on the various career opportunities or promotions that are coming your way—they might not be what they seem.
Last month (December 2008) the planets shifted from the social western sector of the Horoscope to the independent East. This trend is now in full swing for the next 6 months or so. You are very independent by nature and so this trend is comfortable for you. This is a time to have things your way and to create conditions as you desire them to be. You have more freedom of action now. You are not so much in need of the good graces of others to achieve your goals.
But career interest is waning this month and the focus, little by little, will shift to friendships, group activities and organizations. Jupiter will enter your 11th House on the 5th and the Sun on the 19th. So this is a happy and successful area of life now. Moreover, there is a Solar Eclipse on the 26th that occurs in this House. This suggests that now new friends—important ones—are coming into your life. You are re-evaluating existing friendships—friendships are getting tested—and in many cases, existing friendships will dissolve and new ones will come to replace them. This Solar Eclipse brings dramatic changes in the lives of children, dramas (both personal and financial) in the lives of parent figures, and shakeups in religious or educational institutions you are involved in. Many of you (especially students) will be changing your educational plans—changing schools or changing courses. Your college or university might be making important rule changes that affect you. If you are involved in legal issues, there is now a dramatic turn. Since you have basically good aspects this year, I expect legal issues will go in your favour. Avoid speculations during the eclipse period.
Health is good overall, but rest and relax more until the 19th. The ankles, spine, knees, teeth, bones and overall skeletal alignment need special attention.
February
Best Days Overall: 1, 8, 9, 17, 18, 27, 28
Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21
Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 27, 28
Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28
Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21
Mercury your health planet starts to move forward on the 1st. It was Retrograde last month from the 11th to the 31st. So now it is safe to make changes to your health regime or diet. Health is much improved over last month, but you can enhance it even further by giving more attention to the same organs as last month—the spine, knees, teeth, bones and overall skeletal alignment until the 14th and the ankles afterwards. It might be wise to see a chiropractor more often this month and to give more support to the ankles, especially when you exercise. Regular ankle massage is good too. Until the 14th, as your health planet is in an Earth Sign, you will get good results from being in places with a strong earth energy: mountains, old forests, caves, or mineral springs. Crystal therapy will be more powerful as well. After the 14th, as your health planet moves into an Air Sign, fresh air is good for you. Breathing exercises will also be beneficial.
A Lunar Eclipse on the 9th shakes things up with family, family members and perhaps parent figures. Children are also affected. They seem to be making important changes to their image, self-awareness and spiritual changes—changes to their spiritual regime or practice. (You too are making important changes to your spiritual regime, probably because of new revelation and understanding.) You seem involved in certain scandals; it might not be with you personally but with people you are involved with. Certain hidden information now gets disclosed and there is some upheaval about this. Flaws in the home tend to be revealed by every Lunar Eclipse and this one is no different. Be patient with family members now. This eclipse will also test love affairs. Unsound ones can dissolve right now.
But singles need not worry about love. Venus, your love planet, crosses your Ascendant from the 2nd to the 4th. Love is seeking you and will find you. There is nothing much you need to do—just show up! Love pursues you, not the other way around. And this will be the case for the whole month. Venus in your own Sign also shows prosperity—financial windfalls that come to you, and expensive personal items, like clothing or jewellery, as well. Venus in your own Sign from the 3rd onwards enhances your physical appearance and glamorizes it. Your sense of style is enhanced. You radiate (unconsciously, without trying) charm and grace and the opposite sex takes notice. What the cosmos might take away by the eclipse, it will replace with better.
Financial opportunities are seeking you out and will find you. This is a prosperous month. You adopt the image of wealth this month too.
March
Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27
Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 13, 19, 20
Best Days for Love: 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 10, 19, 20, 28, 29
This month you have three main interests. Like last month, it is a very social month. Friendships, group activities and involvement with organizations are still